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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-09-02
OUR NE1eHBoRHooD.
Coon THuNpRR. Anp q

pOOD ihpNDnn, huk. Of.
The rain yesterday put stop to thresh-
ing machines in our neighborhood.
Herman Thomson is home from Du-
luth. Herman says he is not married,
and furthermore doesn't care to be. Let
our young ladies take warning.
Lawyer Halves, with his brother Char.
lie and family, returned from their hunt.
ing expedition yesterday, and tell us
that they killed thirty dozen chickens.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-09-02

that it will make an investigation and
order an abatement of the evils.
In Yesterdays paper reference was
made to the rate per ton per mile be-
tween Chicago and GAINESVILLE and Chi
cago and Mankato. The former wat
stated to be $2.42 and the latter $2.76. Il
should of course have read cents instead
of dollars. The error was obvious.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-09-02
$4,000 MISSING.

Also an Ohio Democratic County
Treasurer.
WAPAKoNETA, Ohio, Aug. 31.-Anglaize
county is excited over the loss of $31 900,
which is missing from the county treas
ury. County Treasurer Israel Lucas is
coincidently absent.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-09-02
FERRY HALL

Is Seminary and College exclusively for la
dies Has beautiful site on the shore of
Lake Michigan, near Chicago. Provides a
general education; also courses leading TO the
college degrees. Address President w. c.
ROBERTS or Principal LEVI SEELEY, Lake
Forest, Illinois.
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BLOWN TO PIECES.
Horrible Fate Of a Farm Hand Blast,
ing Stumps With Dynamite.

Horrible Fate OF Farm Hand Blast
ing Stumps With Dynamite.
LoGANsPoRT, Ind, Sept. IA horrible
accident occurred at John Hills farm
yesterday, by which Henry Fletcher lost
his life. He was blasting stumps with
dynamite, and had about fifty cartridges.
By some unknown means these were all
exploded, and Fletcher was literally
blown to pieces, parts of his body being
found over a hundred yards distant.
The breast bone was suspended in tree
about fifty feet high, while his tongue
was found near where the explosion &C.
Cured.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-09-02
IN A BLAZE OF GLORY.
Opening of the Minneapolis Indu:
trial Exhibition TODAY.

triai ExhiDition To-Day.
MINNEAPOLIS, Aug. 31.-The second
annual industrial exposition opened to-
day in the presence of great multitude.
Bishop Foss, of Minneapolis, delivered
the principal address on the growth OF
the idea of the dignity of labor and me-
chanical skill. Mayor Ames delivered
the address of welcome to which Gov.
McGill responded in behalf of the State.
The Governor then pressed the button
setting the machinery in motion. The
exposition lasts forty days. A nightly
feature is the street illumination made
by, twenty.thousand gas jets and inumer-
able electric lights.
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First ins. sept. I'd; last Oct. nth.
SUMMONS.

CTA1E OF MINNESOTA, County of Blue
~ Earth-ss. District Court, Sixth Judicial
Anna Decker Plff,
vs..
Henry Decker, Deft.
The State Of Minnesota to the above named
defendant.
You. Henry Decker, are hereby summoned
ana required to answer the complaint of the
plaintin In the above entitled action, which is
on ME In the Office OF the clerk of said court In
the city OF Mankato, and to serve a COPY of
your answer to said complaint upon the sub
scrlbers at their Office, in the city of Mankato,
In the county. of Blue Earth, IN the State
aforesaid, within thirty days after the service
or this summons on you exclusive OF the day
OF such service; and II you fail to answer the
said complaint within the time aforesaid, the
plaintiff will upon such failure apply to the
court for the relief demanded I'm her COM
plant.
MankatO, August 30th, A. ID. 1887.
BROWN & YOUNG,
Plaintiffs Attorneys.
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First ins. Sept. 2: last Oct ID.
SHERIFF'S EXECUTION SALE.


BY virtue OF an execution issued out OF and
under the seal OF the District Court for the
county of Blue Earth, and State of Minnesota,
on the 27th day of July, A. ID. 1885,. upon judg-
ment In favor of Gaylord Lamb rendered in
Justice Court on the 10th day OF April, 1880 for
s37 80 damages and sl.50 costs, before p K
johnson, a Justice of the Peace in and for said
county OF Blue Earth. in an action I'm which
Gaylord Lamb was plaintiff, and p. u. Day was
defendant, a transcript of which Judgment
was duly filed and docketed in the office of the
Clerk of the District Court for the county of
Blue Earth aforesaid, on the nth day of April,
1850, have this 10th day Of August A. D., 1887,
duly seized and levied upon all the right, title
and interest OF the said p. H. Day i'm and to the
following described real estate situate in the
county of Blue Earth, and State of Minnesota
tO-wit: The southeast quarter - of the south
east quarter (S) of section seven "a township
one hundred five 106) range twenty eight (2sj.
Notice Is hereby given that will sell ut public
auction to the highest bidder for cash the
above described real property, or SO much
thereof as may be necessary, on the 18th day
OF October, A. ID. 1887, at ten o'clock I'm the
forenoon at the front door Of the Office of Reg
ister OF Deeds, in and for the county of Blue
Earth aforesaid, ut the city of Mankato, there
in to satisfy the said execution, together with
the interest and costs thereon.
Dated August Goth, 1887.
G. PIPER,
Sheriff of Blue Earth county
Is. ID. SMITH,
Attorney for Plaintiff
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GUSTAVUS ADOLF nus COLLEGE,

OF EIEK, NINNESUIA.
Open to both sexes. Four departments.
Collegiate, Academic, Commercial and Musical.
Fall term commences Sept. LIST. For cata.
logue, address N. WAHLSTROM, Rector.
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Ffrst ms. Sept. 2; last Sept. %.
PROBATE NOTICE.

Ii. ID. SMITH,
Attorney for Plaintiff,
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1887-09-07
Sheep Raising in the South.

If the people of the New South onlv
knew it, they could nearly control the
mutton market in the United States
This assertion need not startle any one
VINO IS conversant with their adyan-
tages. The things which discourage, or
stand in the way of. such a
realization are transtory. A sys-
TEN of farming or plantation man
agement prevails-formerly more than
now-which hinders it. It is one pro-
duct or nothing. The laborers, who
have been mostly negroes are a race
not inclined to q shepherds life, nor
are their dispositions most suitable to
handling sheep. The amount of dog
that IS so numerically abund ant around
the hut OF the Southern plantation, is
an eradicator of mutton to sucb an
extent that 1t exterminates all that are
not too fleet to be caught by hungry
cur These three difficulties can he
overcome rapidly and permanently.
An abundance of grass pasturage
which when properly rotated will sun
lly succulent food the year round;
lands that will produce enormou
crops OF corn. oats or peas, as we'll as
abundant root crops so essential in
fattening mutton sheep; when consid-
cred in connection with mild climate
whl'h will permit the grazing and
rearing OF lambs in the winter months
December to March even more readily
than in the spring-p-esents us with q
formidable array of facts, which most
concerns the farmers of the South. and
'houl | convert them to practical an.
'llcat'on of business.
Who does not know the handsome
prices that good fat lambs and muttons
you'd command in all our Northern
titles during the winter and spring
months? The States of South Carolina
Georgia, Alabama and Mississinni
ould raise them in abundance. Their
1ool is always as much of a cash ar.
lcie as cotton. and is as profitable one
ear with another. We have examined
ne grasses and products of this re gion
no know their natural ADVANTAGES
he coal and iron output combined of '
Georgia and Alabama, vast as thew il
re, could not exceed the profits to be b
erlved from the wool and mutton bus. r
less wisely and energetically conduct
| by their people who are engaged in f
5rlcultural pursuits.-Sk Louis I'm. b
tStriaList. -
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direction. and are preparing their
lands for grass and stock raising. As
grass is the foundation of success in
stock feeding, we must seek for the
best for both grazing and for hay, for
winter food is as necessary as summer.
The old saying, 'no grass, no cattle,
no manure, no crops" is as true now
as when first spoken. The grass lands
are the most valuable to the farmer.
Lands well set in grass in some States
are worth from $50 to $500 per
acre. In Holland or Belgium
they are valued from $500 to
81, 900 rer acre, Now with every
thing favorable in the South rs
grass country with lands equally
valuable, because of continued cultiya-
ton, they can be bought for SIS to $40
per acre, when with grass culture they
would be worth as much as any other
lands. Besides all the land in clover
and meadow, of which there is a vast
full so per cent. of the soil of
England is permanent pasture.
Should we be content with less
Than this, when we know grass culture
can be carried on here in the South |
with far greater profit than in any
other land under the sun?-Her6ert
Post, IN Southern Cultioator.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1887-09-07
Value of Grasses,

Grass takes care of him who saves II.
Inc meadow is the master mine OF wealth
strong meadows and fat pastures make tat
pockets. I"'
me acre that will carry q steer carries wealth
Iien'y OF grass makes happy farmers.
Up 70 my eyes in grass, laughs the steer.
oolt nay makes strong wool.
The above are some of the max;ms
that contain deep truths, and the
farmers who heed them are the ones
who will become the richest and most
independent of failures connected with
raising only hoed crops. The rapidly-
growing interest in the raising Of cat
tie horses, mules, sheep and goats, all
over this country. has caused, es-
Pecially among the farmers of the
south and West, a greater interest in
the growth of grasses. the best kind TO
take the place of the native grasses
now SO rapidly disappearing from our
vast Western plains. A large
number OF our more progressive farm
ers here in the Southern States have
come to realize the fact .hat there is an
easier and more profitable way of !
making a living than raising cotton,
The profits of which all go to the
pockets o. The commission merchants.
'ather than their own. Many of them
Ire already making moves in the right
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1887-09-07
THE FORCE OF HABIT.
Case In Which 1t Asserted Itself in thu
AgOnieB Of Death

81 S"6o ia winch III Asserted Itself in thu
Agonies of Death.
II never saw but one man hung" re-
marked DR.. John Thompson to an Albany
IN. ~ Journal tourist, "but that one il.
'ustrated tho force Of habit even in the
:asonies of death. OF course you remem
Der the murderer Ruloff who was hanged
at Blnghamton some twelve or fourteen
years ago. l was one of the physicians
who attended the execution, RulofY was
man who believed in nothing. When
ne walked out for execution preceded by
the chief OF police of Binghamton and
followed by the sheriff and his deputies.
no wore old-fashioned trousers with
pockets In the outside seams. his elbows
were not pinioned but that he could
thrust his hands in his pockets, and he
mad them in as he stood with the moose
ABOUT his neck listening to the reading Of
Inc death-warrant and the last words that
were said, with the indifference Of
stolc. In fact his hands were still in HIS
pockets when the drop fell, but the sud-
den jerk wrenched one OF them out /
notlced as l stood waiting for the sway-
ing OF the limp body to cease that twice
stfong effort was made by his hand to
thrust itself back into his pocket. The
second attempt " as partially successful.
ana literally Ruloff died with his hands in
MS pockets. Twas informed that it was his
aaoltual custom to walk and think with
MS hands in his trouser pockets.n
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1887-09-07
About Rice Culture,

me common rice plant is native of
the East Indies, and SO is the MOSQUITO
for that matter But the assertion, 80
generally acquiesced in, that rice was
introduced into Europe and the two
Americas from India seems to me to
be about as rational as that all mos
quitos came originally from the
Ganges. 1t is indigenous to both con-
tlnents, the conditions being plenty of
water and sunshine, and high tenn
perature. The rice plant is an evolu-
ton from species of swamp grass of
the tropics. and attains its greatest
perfection in sub-tropical climates, as
for instance in Southern China and the
Southern States of the United States.
1t will not do we'll in England or Scot
land, because. although the soil has
one requisite, dampness, the tenn
perature is not sufficient high, and
there is too much cloudy and fogsv
weather 1t is not profitable in Hoi-
land for like reasons. Nor will it ever
come to any thing more than mere
swamp grass on the attiplanes of the
Andes, because, although the ground
IS usually moist. and there is an
abundance of sunshine, the tempera.
ture at such attitudes is too low. And
even in marshy grounds where all the
climatic conditions are favorable, tho
water should be carefully supplied and
regulated according to the season and
the growth of the plant.
In Central and Southern China.
where tits so extensively and profitably
cultivated, it is first sown pretty thick
ly on very wet land. and afterward
transplanted, like cabbage and potato
sprouts, to ground especially pre-
pared for it. 1t is set out in drills or
rows which are about three feet
apart the space between the plants in
Inc drills being about two inches A
single stalk. thus transplated to thor
'ughly well-prepared ground, will
spread out at the roots and send mn az
many as fifteen or even twenty WE'LL
lellned stamens, each producing full
iead OF large. well-formed grain. In
his way there is not only a larger yield
o the crop, but two crops year are }
aslly produced on the same ground. /
do not know whether this method
as ever been tried in the Carolinas or
Georgia; but there is certainly no
eason why it should not work as we'll =
ere as in China and Japan, where the y
all frosts are often from ten to fifteen a
avs earlier than they are even in 6
outhern Virginia and Eastern Ten. Z
essee.-Wm. L. Scruggs, in Southern .
'ultivator.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1887-09-07
HOW NEckTlEs ARE MADE,
A Manufacturer Tells Of the Trade and 1
Various Peculiarities.

! A Manufacturer Tells of the Trade and II,
Various Peculiarities.
The designing of silks and satins fol-
neckties is profession in itself. s'There
are special grades and designs of silks and
satlns made exclusively for the necktie
trade" said manufacturer to New York
Mai and Express reporter. "These mate.
rails are made from patterns designed by
men who do nothing but study new things
In this line. There are from fifty to sew.
enty-fve factories in the country and ten
or twelve first-class makers. The latter
usually secure exclusive rights to certain
styles of goods offered to the Amer.
lean market, or a large portion of it.
But the success of making up such goods
Is just like lottery. Perhaps one season
l hit upon design that will become 50
popular that all the other makers are
forced to adopt it, but the next season
some one in Boston or Philadelphia will
make hit and l am forced to copy that.
ihere's never any telling how necktie is
gong to take until it is fairly on tho mar
ket. Then it depends for success on who
adopts it first. If he happens to be a
swell that particular kind of necktie will
sell WELL"
care the styles of making up neckties
originated abroadw
'Not now. They were until about three
years ago, but now our styles are superior
to the European, and they are coming over
here for patterns. However, there is a ten.
dency toward English patterns for this
season.
There are more than twelve hundred |
girls employed in this city alone. They
work by the piece, and make money more
Or less according to their experiences. A
good finisher can make eight dollars or
nine dollars week. She takes a necktia
after it is put together and finishes each
perfectly, SO that it is ready to box. Three
colors Of the same design and
'ame style are twisted together to give the
iealer an assortment in the one make. The
inisher must see that all of this kind are
xactly alike in point of finish and make.
p. We have one girl who does nothing
ut turn bands of neckties, and she makes
fteen dollars week. She turns twenty.
We or thirty dozen bands day."
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1887-09-07
SOUTHERN AGRICULTURAL.
The Tobacco Crop.

1t is said as to low grades it must be
admitted there is an abundant supply
: more than enough for the years re.
qulrements; but against that fact is
the circumstance that these grades are
S35 per cent lower in price than they
were in 1884, when average lots suit
{ able for the Spanish reggie brought
from 81 to 81 cents, and to-day goods
Of the same character can be had at 5
to 81 cents; while it has to be remem-
bered that the great decline in produc-
ton this year is in sections which have
produced the great surplus of low
grades. There will certainly be
shortage, it is assumed. in these grades
this year.
Respe citing reggie tobaccos of the
higher typo it has never been claimed
that the crop of 1886 yielded greater
supply than the crop of 1885, and the
reggie requirements for 1886 practically
exhausted the supply suitable for that
appropriation. Now, with the de-
mands for 1887 for Italy and France,
which are 40 per cent. greater than
last year--amounting to 81, 900 hogs
heads, against 23,OOO-it is argued
that it does not appear very clear, even
in view of the apparently enormous
stocks in sight, where enough tobacco
to go around will be found. The talk
that the regies can buy in European
markets what they need to fill their
contracts is deemed groundless. |
Except Bremen. no market
is known where one might
think of looking for suitable supplies
and there. according to adviccs dated
the md lie of July, fully 1000 more
hoos'ieads of new leaf are wanted, and
tbs with the old stock-from which,
presumably, the regies may hope to
fill their contracts-wiIl all be needed
by the lie sular trade of the place.
Its said that q synthetic las paid
in cash to the Spanish Government
s1S 600. 900 for the privileg, of fur
nisIing the Spanish people with TO-
wv Ach 'hC y Cal 1OC(-lu rOunu |
,lres, say 81, 900 per hogshead-and it !
does not seem reasonable. it is contend
ed. that the syndicate in its desire to
[ulil ii its contract with the Govern
meat would refuse to pay, if necessary,
even ten cents pound-say $3.50 per
hogshead-in order to furnish the 10.
0acco required. Ii
There are hints and evidences of q
'yndicates and corners at the West !
wherein ample capital is lodged to {
enable holders to hold and specula- Z
ors to boom, and on the surface, at
east it looks as if these parties held +,
he winning hand; as whatever the u
possibility as to available supplies, a
hort, very short, crop this season is W
ertainty, even the CIarksville district Ct
n August promising only one-third ~
the harvest of last year. T. u
,eaf 81
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HERE AND THERE.

"A farmer when his chickens es
, capped from their yard house, rerpe
trated this mercantile pun: II will
!; re-coop my losses" -Mcrchant Tyav
eler.
Down South they eat PEPPER OF
watermelon. Up North they some
times mix cayenns pepper with the
mustard to warm up the plaster after
eating Observation-Disclosures of Elm.
cation.
"A force pump throwing a spray,
is used by some poultry men in throw
ing whltewash and other lice-killing
liquid into the cracks and creyice, Of
the poultry quarters.
The moulting season is now at
hand when the old fowls shed their
feathers and put on new ones. They
require close attention. plenty of good
food and fresh water during this
period.
The Creator has endowed man
with powers of acquisition, and his
laws OF nature stand always ready to
supply his every real want bountifully
as the reward of his industry.
Sheep in an old. weedy pasture or
wood lot will more than pay their keep
IN keeping down the noxious weeds and
brlers: while nothing equals them for
restoring fertility to worn-out field.
Remedy for Chicken Cholera:
Hyposulphite of soda, four parts:
boracic acid. two parts; Mandrake
root one part; red pepper. one part;
resln' one part; powdered rhubarb,
one part. Give each fowl teaspoon
tut every hour until relieved.
-lhere are laws in Illinois against
corners in breadstuffs and provisions |
out they are of no particular use.
There is natural law, however, that
Is beginning to tell-the law that .
corner which does not corner does
corner the cornereE Milwaukee Sem
incl. WV
"A cattle disease has broken out at
tlkhart, Ind, which is proving very
fatal. 1t is believed to be pleuro- pnen-
nonla, and great excitement is caused
~ it. The authorities have been mott
led, and should it prove to be the
dreaded contagion. measures will be
AIKEN to stamp it out
The tobacco worm is the common
opic Of conversation among farmers
t present The long dry spell gave
he fly all the chance she wanted, and I
rom a close inspection and general re-
orts she has not failed to take adj
'ntage OF the opportunity, Judging (,
'om the amount of young worms now
tobacco. However, the crop in this
oanty is good. Mr.. Hogan and Mot. ,
Villains, near Olnlstead, have about &
lie best We have seen. -Russe,yiNe
hE) Hera!a' Entsrpriss, ;